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matt819

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Fri Oct 11, 2019, 09:46 AM Oct 2019

Need help with Thunderbird email [View all]

When I got my newest computer earlier this year I went about transferring everything over from the old now (now officially deceased - whew! that was close).

For some reason I had trouble with Outlook, which I'd been using for years and years.

I ended up with Mozilla Thunderbird and am generally happy with it.

For some reason, I think having to do with importing stuff from Outlook, Thunderbird is forwarding email from one account to another. BTW, I have three accounts set up in Thunderbird. I had that set up previously in Outlook and, as I said, it seems to have perpetuated itself in Thunderbird, or I inadvertently set things up that way.

I've checked all the settings and can't find one where I can set up, or delete, a rule about forwarding e-mails to another email address or, for that matter, to a specific folder (except for spam options). I checked the server for the email account whose emails are being forwarded, and can't find anything there that would explain the situation or make it stop.

If anyone's familiar with Thunderbird, I'd appreciate any help in sorting this out.

It's not life or death, but it is annoying and unnecessarily time consuming, plus I'm using more disk space than I need to, and it's amazing how fast a 4 TB disk can be filled up.

By the way, some things I don't want to do. Switch over to Gmail. I have a gmail account but I don't like the interface and would prefer to have my emails on my computer and not in the cloud. I tried something called, I think, eM, but I didn't like that.

Thanks.

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